Lead, Electrical Engineer

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Job Title: Lead, FPGA Firmware Verification Engineer

Job Code: 46971

Job Location: Alpharetta, GA

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

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Harris is seeking a hands-on Lead, FPGA Firmware Verification Engineer to provide technical leadership and execute FPGA verification activities for mission-critical aerospace and defense products.

This role combines simulation development, regression execution, hardware integration and laboratory testing with leadership of verification efforts supporting DO-254 compliance. The successful candidate will develop and enhance verification environments, debug simulation and hardware issues, and align verification activities, documentation, and deliverables with program requirements and schedules.

The ideal candidate brings strong FPGA design and verification experience, knowledge of DO-254 processes, excellent analytical and laboratory skills, and the ability to communicate technical issues and solutions clearly. This individual will collaborate across engineering disciplines and geographically distributed teams within Advanced Mission Technologies to deliver high-quality products to our customers.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for FPGA verification, including verification planning, testbench development, simulation, regression testing, hardware testing, and results analysis.
• Develop, maintain, and execute verification environments using VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), and assertion-based verification, as applicable.
• Review requirements for clarity, completeness, and verifiability; develop requirements-based verification procedures and maintain traceability between requirements, tests, and results.
• Support DO-254 verification activities, including preparation and review of verification plans, procedures, results, coverage analyses, and supporting lifecycle documentation.
• Develop and enhance scalable simulation environments, automated regressions, and scripting infrastructure to improve verification efficiency and repeatability.
• Analyze verification coverage, identify gaps, and drive resolution of discrepancies and outstanding verification objectives.
• Guide and perform laboratory integration and hardware verification, including troubleshooting FPGA behavior and correlating hardware results with simulations.
• Assist verification engineers in debugging test benches, simulations, and hardware issues; provide technical mentoring and promote consistent verification practices.
• Work with FPGA development and verification tools, including AMD/Xilinx Vivado and legacy ISE 14.7, Synplify, Intel/Altera Quartus, and Siemens Questa Sim, as applicable to assigned programs.
• Coordinate with project engineering, program management, systems engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering, and certification stakeholders across multiple locations.
• Align verification priorities, resources, documentation,…